kvm_dev_ioctl casts the arg value to void __user *, just to recast it
again to long. This seems unnecessary.
According to objdump the binary code on x86 is unchanged by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
static long kvm_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp,
unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
{
- void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
long r = -EINVAL;
switch (ioctl) {
r = kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm();
break;
case KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION:
- r = kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension((long)argp);
+ r = kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension(arg);
break;
case KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE:
r = -EINVAL;